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To the Colombian Caribbean region we enter through Santa Marta , after flying from Bucaramanga, capital of Santander. The oldest city in Colombia is a land of landscape contrasts: there are beaches, mountains, snowy mountains and jungle. It is also a magnet for history. Founded in 1525, Santa Marta was the city where Simón Bolívar died, he has one of the oldest cathedrals in South America and the feeling of a glorious past is breathed in the streets of its historic center.

La Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino deserves a visit both for its museum and its botanical garden; although to Santa Marta we are chasing its natural enclaves, which seem out of paradise. Considered the highest coastal mountain in the world, declared a Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is a destination where the wisdom of nature and the indigenous converge.

The streets of Santa Marta.REMEDIOS VALLS

There lies the imposing Lost City of the ancient Tayrona civilization, known as teyuna, which is reached after three days of walking through the humid tropical forest.

Tayrona National Park is the other Eden we pursue. Hidden between the mountains and the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, it has a variety of unique ecosystems. "Few places in the world can boast of keeping in such a small space a mixture of such wild and different landscapes," says Julia Miranda, director of National Natural Parks of Colombia. The best way to discover its charm is by pointing to some route on foot.

The most basic, ten kilometers, winds through jungle roads, climbs mountains, crosses the jungle and dies on the coast, in the most photographed place in the Park: Cape San Juan. There, in the middle of the crystalline waters, a green hill rises imposing on the top a kiosk from which to see the Eden that the Tayrona considered sacred.

Tayrona National ParkREMEDIOS VALLS

BETWEEN FESTIVALS AND AREPAS

And if we talk about the Caribbean, we must talk about Cartagena de Indias . The magic of La Fantástica lies in the flavor with which you enjoy your tropical nights and in the fascinating secrets of the history that you keep in your walls, balconies and alleyways; Witnesses of the tenacity and elegance of the colonial era.

Culture lovers have an appointment with the Hay Festival or the International Film Festival, while the most demanding palates have it with the Cartagena post, coconut rice and egg arepa. And everyone has an unavoidable appointment with the lush beaches of the island of Barú, less than an hour by boat; with its squares, like the one of the Cars flanked by the Clock Tower and under whose arcades the Portal de los Dulces rests, and with its night marching at the blow of champeta, remembering why the Colombians carry the music, the sabrosura, printed in his DNA.

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